Young jobseekers suffer cruellest cut
Brian Lenihan senior cynically proclaimed “the island was too small for all of us” during the FF-made recession in the 1980s.
His more cerebral son was not so explicit but every bit as sincere in his crafting of a decision to humiliate and starve young people into leaving. Not many of them enjoy life on welfare. They don’t need to be forced to take jobs – they desperately want a job and the dignity it brings.